09/22/2025
This collaborative exhibition centers around Andrew Hieronymi’s CONTACT installation game. Alongside the game, it showcases his recent algorithmic paintings transforming digital gameplay into physical gesture. Time-motion studies, the title of the painting series, hints at the motion study work of pioneer industrial/organizational psychologist Lillian Gilbreth by way of novelist Tom McCarthy.
This version of CONTACT is exhibited with custom sculptural controllers designed by Tom Lauerman. Working together over the past year, Lauerman developed and iterated a series of game controllers that have materialized via 3D printing and craft techniques. Their collaboration has moved gradually from practical and functional to something more sculptural and metaphorical.
Lauerman also exhibits a series of five small ceramic sculptures that are the residue of the form-finding process for the larger controllers. Along with these elements, a series of ceramic glaze color tests represent an analog, chemistry-based mirror of the color spectrum utilized in CONTACT.
From the works on display emerges a silent conversation between the two artists’ digital and analog practices.